Sata expansion card on Dell Poweredge 840

[Sir_Awesome]

So I just picked up a Dell Poweredge 840 workstation to use as a server but I only has four sata ports, I want to add one of those pci sata expansion cards but I am afraid that it wont detect the extra sata ports since the mobo is older. Any experts out there know what this will do?

[Stardar1]

1 minute ago, Sir_Awesome said:

So I just picked up a Dell Poweredge 840 workstation to use as a server but I only has four sata ports, I want to add one of those pci sata expansion cards but I am afraid that it wont detect the extra sata ports since the mobo is older. Any experts out there know what this will do?

My dad used a similar card on a dell server, should work just fine. 

[scottyseng]

1 hour ago, Sir_Awesome said:

So I just picked up a Dell Poweredge 840 workstation to use as a server but I only has four sata ports, I want to add one of those pci sata expansion cards but I am afraid that it wont detect the extra sata ports since the mobo is older. Any experts out there know what this will do?

Should work just fine, as long as the PCI slot is there, you can use it to expand what you need.

[Sir_Awesome]

2 hours ago, scottyseng said:

Should work just fine, as long as the PCI slot is there, you can use it to expand what you need.

yea it has several open pci slots I was just concerned about the software and bios compatibility

[scottyseng]

Just now, Sir_Awesome said:

yea it has several open pci slots I was just concerned about the software and bios compatibility

It's usually plug and play, RAID cards usually might have issues. I've never had one not work in my experience though.